Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Changing Geography of Employee Stock-Ownership Plans, 1981-1991 -- Evaluating the Influence of Local Context on Corporate Decision Making

博士论文研究：员工持股计划的地理变化，1981-1991——评估当地环境对公司决策的影响

• 批准号: 9506671
• 负责人: Eric Sheppard
• 金额: $ 0.66万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-01 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9506671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Changing; Geography

SBR-9506671 Eric Stewart Sheppard Stephen Joseph Smela University of Minnesota Dissertation Improvement Research: The Changing Geography of Employee Stock Ownership Plans, 1981-1991: Evaluating the Influence of Local Context on Corporate Decision-Making This research evaluates two competing views that seek to explain the paucity of worker ownership in the American economy. The first argues that worker ownership is feasible only in firms with very specific characteristics. The second claims that while worker ownership is a viable proposition, the small number of firms exhibiting employee ownership results from the contexts in which the firms operate. This research investigates the relative degree to which firm characteristics and changing local conditions account for the rise in employee ownership in the 1980s via employee stock ownership plans (EOSPs). The study employs statistical modeling, to evaluate the interplay among firm characteristics and metropolitan-level conditions affecting the decision to implement EOSPs, and executive interviews to understand the role of business networks in th e spread of EOSPs. The project results will help better inform the theoretical debates concerning the relative importance of firm characteristics versus contextual factors in the viability of worker ownership and contribute to the discussion of the importance of changing labor relations in the American economy.

SBR-9506671 Eric Stewart Sheppard Stephen Joseph Smela明尼苏达大学的论文改进研究：员工持股计划的变化地理，1981-1991：评估当地环境对公司决策的影响这项研究评估了两种相互竞争的观点，试图解释美国经济中工人所有权的缺乏。 第一种观点认为，工人所有制只有在具有非常具体特征的企业中才是可行的。 第二个主张，虽然工人所有权是一个可行的主张，少数企业表现出员工所有权的结果，从企业经营的背景。 本研究调查的相对程度，企业的特点和不断变化的当地条件占员工持股在20世纪80年代通过员工持股计划（EOSP）的上升。 本研究采用统计建模方法，评估企业特征和城市水平条件之间的相互作用对实施EOSP决策的影响，并通过高管访谈了解商业网络在EOSP传播中的作用。该项目的结果将有助于更好地告知理论辩论的相对重要性，企业的特点与背景因素的可行性工人所有权，并有助于改变劳动关系的重要性在美国经济的讨论。